Lysander Spooner: “The very precautions used to prevent injustice being done, may often have the effect to prevent justice being done.”

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.